Word: kister
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...June number of the Harvard Magazine is crammed with stories: John Gallishaw contributes an amusing anecdote of feigned insanity, miss mason shows how an imitation of filial piety may be employed to extract money from innocent Westerners, M. A. Kister converts an atheist into a believer and man of power by means of a railway accident. So far there is nothing beyond the usual legerdemain of the short story; but Robert H. Chambers has achieved a more difficult feat. His "Nigger of No Account" is well no the way which leads to literature, because the author has sympathized with...
...fiction is concerned we are not disappointed. Mr. Kister, who, judged by his two stories, loves the tactual, tells his grim tale well. Mr. Davidson although we early guess half of the denouement of his romance, nevertheless surprises us with the other half, and throughout the whole tale gives joyously vivid pictures of a West, not yet, we hope, wholly departed. His characters are alive, and the wind blows. In Balked Mr. Raffalovich burlesques certain modern fads, but such fads, even in burlesques, are worth neither the expenditure of Mr. Raffalovich's gifts nor the time of the paper maker...
...deft and tender handling of a difficult unusual situation, read "The New Romance." Mr. Kister has taken elemental facts, arrayed them cleverly, brooded over them with mature intent Sometimes his style is incredibly young,--or is he dramatizing the youth of this gay if serious adventure...
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...Butter field, Jr., '21, E. J. Damon '21, F. R. Davis '20, C. W. Efroymson '19, A. O. Fink '20, M. N. Freedman '12, R. W. Harwood '20, C. J. Hill '21, P. E. Jackson '21, M.A. Kister, 2nd, '21, E. S. Linstrom '21. Those The J. Mechan '21, R. P. Miller '18, S. A. Montague '21, F. J. Robinson '21, F. B. Sadler Une., A. Sapenstein '21, B. Schlack '21, J. T. Sevan '21, H. P. Thurston...